Cary Lerman
USA Guide 2024
Senior Statespeople : Insurance: Policyholder
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Provided by Cary Lerman
Career
Cary Lerman has been representing clients in their most complex and significant insurance coverage matters for over 40 years as both a trial lawyer and adviser.
Mr. Lerman's practice focuses on all lines of property and casualty and errors and omissions liability insurance, including general liability policies, officer and director liability policies, legal malpractice policies, fidelity bond and crime policies, electronic errors and omissions policies, environmental impairment policies, engineering and architecture liability policies, cybersecurity policies, aviation policies and first party property damage policies, including business interruption insurance.
These matters involve insurance coverage for environmental contamination, construction defects, product liability, securities law violations, employee theft, mass tort personal injury claims, advertising, trademark, copyright and privacy violations, and space launches, among others.
As a trial lawyer, Mr. Lerman's practice includes litigating insurance coverage disputes and other claims in state and federal court. He has successfully tried general insurance coverage and bad faith claims. He won a multimillion dollar jury verdict against a national insurance company under a third-party liability policy, obtaining a finding of bad faith and punitive damages, and won, on summary judgment, a bad faith finding against more than one national insurance company in two separate lawsuits.
Chambers Review
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Cary Lerman of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP offers demonstrable expertise in coverage litigation pertaining to product liability and property damage claims, among other issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Cary has years of practical experience in the insurance policyholder area and brings it to bear in the complex, high-exposure matters on which we have worked together."
"One of the finest C-suite advisors and strategic advisors I've come across, Cary is a go-to for very complex and high-stakes issues; his expertise is unparalleled."
"Cary has years of practical experience in the insurance policyholder area and brings it to bear in the complex, high-exposure matters on which we have worked together."
"One of the finest C-suite advisors and strategic advisors I've come across, Cary is a go-to for very complex and high-stakes issues; his expertise is unparalleled."